Agent of Seraphim-Chapter 42: Roasting the Worm
’Eddy’s team - Observation on the Outsiders’
The search team eventually reached an open area, which closely resembled the desert environment outside the village. However, they were actually still in the Demon Realm.
"Eddy, what do you think they were whispering to each other?" Eric asked.
The two foreign recruited warriors were speaking towards each other with some weird metal in between, while glancing back at them periodically.
Eric did not have high favour for them, as they do not look like warriors at all. They looked weak and did not seem to be training their body much. They also don’t seem to have huge mana reserves like Ruby.
But there was a weird thing in them.
They soon encountered a few demon worms.
Eddy raised his hand as a halt signal for his fellow tribe members, leaving the two outsiders to face the worms themselves.
"Hey... ditching us in the middle of a fight?!" The foreign warrior yelled as the demon worm wriggled towards him. Eddy and the others were observing closely and denied their exit by pushing them back to face the demon worms.
"We had been fighting most of the time, and you two were just staring at the sideline," Eddy said bluntly.
They should have felt their hearts sink, right? They did appear to be bothered, but not desperate. It’s like they had a way to escape all along.
They soon answered the tribe members’ suspicion.
One of the outsiders took a ball out of his pocket and threw it toward the demon worms.
...BOOM!!!
Dirt and dust were scattered all over the air, and the tribe warriors were unable to look ahead clearly. Their sight was obstructed.
"Urgh!" Eddy’s heart raced. He couldn’t hear any sound after the blast. His body felt like it was struck with a shockwave, which continued to press on him, and he felt this even when he was far from the center of the blast.
Soon, he heard a bone-cracking sound that came from his own body, and his body slumped to the ground.
As a warrior of Emas and a practitioner of combat arts, focusing on the strength of his body, he had trained to become accustomed to pain. He developed a certain level of physical durability.
However, the body he had trained with sweat and blood was feeling so much damage from an unknown force caused by a tiny ball.
After the dust settled, he checked on the surroundings.
"The demon worms were..." Eddy dumbfoundedly stared at the scene in front of him. There was a giant pit, with the corpse of demon worms earlier, in a messed-up form, barely recognisable.
The two foreign warriors were also nowhere to be seen.
"Everyone’s okay? Please respond if you hear me!" Eddy shouted, searching for his fellow members.
...clang. Eddy heard a faint clanging sound echo in the air.
He rushed in that direction and found Eric lying on the ground, his armor shattered, barely breathing.
"I’m alright... check the others..." Eric muttered in a soft voice.
"How about others?" Edd raised his speed of searching. Others were lying on the ground breathing, but...
He stood there, solemn, without speaking a word. Kneeled beside his fallen comrade and closed their eyes.
The other warriors who survived the blast started to respond back to him one by one, but they too were quiet after seeing their fallen comrade, and placed their hand on their chest.
They were comrades, training together every day...
"Where were the two bastards?" Eddy said coldly. "They wouldn’t go far."
However, a thought struck him. Could they possibly place a tracking spell on Ed’s team? But there were no traces on them, unless...
"The weird metal they were whispering to?" Eddy raised an eyebrow when Eric voiced his suspicion. They had reached the same conclusion.
"Let’s hurry to Ed and the others."
***
’Raml-d’ah Raid Team’
Raml-d’ah’s heavy coils tore through the ground, vanishing into the earth. A moment later, it wriggled beneath the surface, angling straight toward Brand.
By all rights, he shouldn’t have sensed its approach... right up until the ground split and the giant worm lunged upward to strike him.
But Brand sprang aside just in time.
The creature didn’t relent. It arced overhead and came crashing down with earth-splitting force.
Brand braced himself, jamming a handful of debuff cubes between the worm’s descending head and his raised forearm.
He was sent flying upon impact, and the other warriors rushed forward to catch him.
But before they reached him, the air trembled, and a lightning bolt fell from the sky, striking Brand at its center.
"Tag in." Karl darted to the lightning bolt and spread his cape to absorb the energy.
Agile as a wolf, he leapt toward the giant worm’s tail and drove his spear through it with the gathered energy, pinning the creature to the ground.
"He managed to convert the lightning attribute energy into physical energy." Seraphine analysed.
Raml-d’ah writhed in pain, trying to release its tail from being pinned by the spear. But Brand had continued with the assault.
"Reverse Strike." Brand extended his palm, targeted the lower maw of the worm, attempting to break at least one of the fangs.
Under the joint effort of Brand and Karl, they managed to break one of the lower fangs of the mutated demon worm.
Raml-d’ah screeched and spewed blood while wriggling around.
’Now was the perfect timing. The worm was ready to be served.’
Brand felt a sharp pain in his hand, while the beetle in Ruby’s hand disintegrated. The long-awaited signal was delivered.
The den’s temperature rose, and the air trembled, battered by a surge of blistering heat.
The warriors gasped for air as hot air gushed across their faces. Their eyes traced the flame that went past them.
A flame bird flew towards Raml-d’ah, piercing its chest. It then enveloped the worm. A flame pillar towering over the giant worm now stood where the creature had been.
Brand grinned, thinking the battle would be concluded with that, and waited for the notification to ring. He opened up the map to check on the other team’s progress.
But as he browsed through the map and the life signals indicator, his expression drained of all emotion.
